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Kevin Funk

Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science 2014-2015 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship Kevin Funk, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, used his 2014 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities to further his dissertation project entitled, “Capitalists of the World Unite? Locating an Imagined Community of Transnational Capitalists in Latin America’s Booming Relations with the Arab […]

Deborah Andrews

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology 2014-2015 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship Deborah Andrews, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida used her Rothman Doctoral Fellowship to travel to the Puno region of Peru in summer 2014 to investigate whether or not globalization has negatively impacted the agro-diversity of local quinoa markets in the Peruvian […]

Michael Vincent

School of Music 2015-2016 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship Michael Vincent, a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology, used his 2015-2016 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship to travel to Paris and Berlin for archival work. His dissertation, “Cosmopolitan Culture in Boccherini’s Madrid, 1785-1800” examines the unpublished musical manuscripts of Luigi Boccherini housed in the Bibliothèque National in Paris and […]

Alana Lord

Ph.D. Candidate, History 2015-2016 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship Alana Lord, Ph.D. candidate is History, used her 2015 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship to travel to Spain and conduct archival research in the cities of Barcelona, Huesca, and Lleida. Her dissertation, “Constructing Royal Power: Host Desecration and Kingship in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon,” examines debates about royal power […]

Brandon Jett

Ph.D. Candidate, History 2015-2016 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship Brandon Jett, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, used his 2015 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship to conduct archival research in the Birmingham City Archives in Birmingham, Alabama. His dissertation explores the complex web of interactions between African-American communities and the police in the Jim Crow South […]

John Hames

Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology 2015-2016 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship John Hames, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, used his 2015-2016 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship to conduct anthropological fieldwork in the West African countries of Senegal and Mauritania. His fieldwork contributed to his dissertation entitled, “Activism and the Politics of Language Loyalty: The Pulaar Movement in Senegal […]

Rebecca Devlin

Ph.D. Candidate, History 2015-2016 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship Rebecca Devlin, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, used her 2015 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship to conduct further research on her dissertation entitled, “Bishops and Community in Northwestern Hispania: Transforming Roman Society, ca. 370 to 470 C.E.” In this project, Devlin explores the expanding social role of bishops […]

Ralph Patrello

Ph.D. Candidate, History 2016-2017 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship Ralph Patrello, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, used his 2016 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship to travel to Toulouse and Bordeaux to access archaeological site reports on cemeteries and ceramics relevant to his dissertation, “Power and Self-Representation in Southern Gaul, 395-600 AD.” Patrello’s work focuses on burial practices […]

Kenneth Noble

Ph.D. Candidate, Education 2016-2017 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship Kenneth Noble, a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education studying schools, society, and culture, used his 2016 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship to Travel to Tucson, Arizona and Cincinnati, Ohio to complete archival research relevant to his dissertation, “Patrolling the Hallways: The History of Police Presence in Urban Public […]

Brian Hamm

Ph.D., History 2016-2017 Rothman Doctoral Fellowship Brian Hamm, who received his Ph.D. in history in August 2017, used his Rothman Doctoral Fellowship during the summer of 2016 to travel to the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain to access archival documents on the Spanish Inquisition for his dissertation, “Between the Foreign and the Familiar: […]